How will markets react to Fed whispers? WSJ reporter Jon Hilsenrath, known as “the Fed whisperer” for his close access to US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, reported on Saturday that the Fed has a plan for unwinding (paywall) its $85-billion-a-month program of quantitative easing. Will the markets believe it when they open on Monday, and if so, what will the reaction mean?

Nawaz Sharif declared victory in Pakistan. Almost 14 years after being ousted in a coup, Sharif defeated former cricketer Imran Khan in an election that marks the first democratic handover of power.

A spanner in the works of Iran’s election. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a popular and reformist former president, registered to run minutes before the deadline, posing a conundrum for more hardline clerics, who have the power to block him but may not want to risk popular anger.

Zachary M. Seward on the culture of omniscience at Bloomberg, where journalists’ access to client information has caused a scandal. “Within the company, stalking is simply part of the culture. Employees can look up—using the <FON> function on their terminals—the last time anyone scanned into or out of a Bloomberg office, which they use to keep legitimate tabs on coworkers and, more voyeuristically, to track their executives on business trips (“Winkler just badged out of Tokyo!”). Some staff make a habit of looking up the last time Michael Bloomberg—the company’s founder, longtime chief executive, and now mayor of New York—visited his family’s foundation, which uses the same security system.” Read more here.